CVE-1999-0779

Summary

CVE-1999-0779 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the HP-UX SharedX recserv program. An attacker can exploit this issue by sending specially crafted requests to the program, causing it to consume excessive resources and crash, resulting in a denial-of-service condition for affected systems. This vulnerability could potentially impact the availability of critical services and applications running on HP-UX systems. Organizations using HP-UX are advised to apply the available patch or workaround to mitigate this risk.

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